With no eyes on them, Joey could clearly sense through En the statue monsters erupting into a frenzy the instant they escaped.
But Joey had no time to think.
As he and Ging lunged out, the obstructions over every window in the Tower exploded at once.
Everything happened extremely fast, but that was not the real reason Ging and Joey had made such a sudden retreat.
The real reason was the first statue to explode. It had not died. When its scattered fragments landed, they began glowing again and gathering in midair.
A pulling force seemed to be piecing them back together.
At the center of that force, energy was also building, giving the impression that another explosion would follow once the statue had reassembled.
In other words, if Joey and Ging stayed, all that awaited them was an endless chain of explosions.
Moreover, the moonlight spilling inside had not only changed the statues. The immovable staircase inside the Tower had changed as well.
The moonlight seemed to have breathed life into the staircase, which was showing signs of transforming into something like a python.
A python thousands of meters long!
Most importantly, flashes of silver light were appearing on this "python" too.
If the staircase exploded as well, the enormous blast would be enough to destroy every living thing inside the Tower.
That was the real reason Ging had dragged Joey away.
After lunging out through the doorway, Joey discovered another problem.
His Nen seemed to have been severed. The instant he left the Tower, his En lost its ability to probe the interior.
More precisely, the portion of his Nen spread inside the Tower had been cut off entirely.
Although it was not much Nen, it still left Joey looking grim.
Without his Nen suppressing them, whether the